On Fri 31 Oct 2025 at 14:25:05 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > At this point it is important to remind people that the output of ls is > meant for users, not programs. A script that uses ls for anything else > than showing a list of files to the operator, a script that reads the > output of ls and parses it, is almost certainly broken when it > encounters some special characters, and if not it is at least needlessly > complicated.
I'd agree with that, with the odd exception where the range of filenames is strictly limited. For example, ls -t1 is hard to beat for simplicity, compared with using find+printf+sort+cut or find+stat+sort+cut. Cheers, David.
